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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

Everybody thought the real substance was going to come from B2B eCommerce players that would deliver “real value&# by disintermediating supply chains … blah, blah, blah. I sat next to Irwin Jacobs (founder of Qualcomm) on a bus ride. So journalists were looking for a new story to tell.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

Both are building on top of the existing credit card infrastructure because as Swipely Founder/CEO Angus Davis points out, millions of people are walking around with a mobile payment device in their pocket… it’s called a credit card. So not a new store of value and this is basically scenario #1 described above.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

There are plenty of companies poised to serve your needs in Bangalore, the Philippines, and across Eastern Europe. But today, the equilibrium is shifting for many founders. Boundaryless) Teams. For some time now, it has been possible to outsource engineering labor to other countries. Collaboration tools have improved.